Hello again, my reading friend. Let us begin at the beginning. Do you know what yours truly is going to discuss with you? About the first Canadian satellite, you say? Right answer. Let us continue. The launch of said satellite, Alouette, of course, late in the evening of 28 September 1962 (local time), or early in the morning of 29 September (Ottawa, Ontario, time), from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, obviously did not go unnoticed. The leaders of the 4 political parties represented in

Welcome aboard our special spatial ship, my reading friend. Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Thunderbirds are go! If you do not recognise the opening sequence of every episode of the British television series Thunderbirds, launched in September 1965, then there are serious gaps in your knowledge of the popular culture of the Cold War period. Period. And yes, that series was mentioned in September 2018 and March 2019 issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee. And yes again, yours truly remembers seeing

Did you know that the Canadian space program was a creature of the Cold War? Yes, yes, a creature of the Cold War between the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and their allies / satellites, Canada and Poland for example. That Cold War had already chilled our ginormous blue marble for a good ten years when the USSR launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in October 1957 – a small metal marble mentioned in moult issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee since